good day dear monks

i try do a parser job with the use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath; well i tried to find out the positons with Xpather but this was a bit too heavy. So i decided to do it with a simple example... 



use strict;

use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;

my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new;

#use real file name here
open(my $fh, "<", "file.html") or die $!;

$tree->parse_file($fh);

my ($name)       = $tree->findnodes(qq{/html/body/table/tr[1]/td[2]});
my ($type)       = $tree->findnodes(qq{/html/body/table/tr[1]/td[2]});
my ($adress)     = $tree->findnodes(qq{/html/body/table/tr[1]/td[2]});
my ($adress_two) = $tree->findnodes(qq{/html/body/table/tr[1]/td[2]});
my ($telephone)  = $tree->findnodes(qq{/html/body/table/tr[1]/td[2]});
my ($fax)      = $tree->findnodes(qq{/html/body/table/tr[1]/td[2]});
my ($internet)   = $tree->findnodes(qq{/html/body/table/tr[1]/td[2]});
my ($officer)    = $tree->findnodes(qq{/html/body/table/tr[1]/td[2]});
my ($employees)  = $tree->findnodes(qq{/html/body/table/tr[1]/td[2]});
my ($offices)    = $tree->findnodes(qq{/html/body/table/tr[1]/td[2]});
my ($worker)     = $tree->findnodes(qq{/html/body/table/tr[1]/td[2]});
my ($country)    = $tree->findnodes(qq{/html/body/table/tr[1]/td[2]});
my ($the_council)= $tree->findnodes(qq{/html/body/table/tr[1]/td[2]});


print $name->as_text;
print $type->as_text;
print $adress->as_text;
print $adress_two->as_text;
print $telephone->as_text;
print $fax->as_text;
print $internet->as_text;
print $officer->as_text;
print $employees->as_text;
print $offices->as_text;
print $worker->as_text;
print $country->as_text;
print $the_council->as_text;

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is this all right ? See one of the example sites: http://www.kultusportal-bw.de/servlet/PB/menu/1188427/index.html?COMPLETEHREF=http://www.kultus-bw.de/did_abfrage/detail.php?id=04313488


in the grey shadowed block you see the wanted information: 17 lines that are wanted. Note - i have 5000 different HTML-files - that all are structured in the very same way!

That means i would be happy to have a template that can be runned with HTML::TokeParser::Simple and DBI. That would be great!!

love to hear from you

pb1

In reply to Xpather running against a simple HTML-document - testing and evaluation by Perlbeginner1

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